Samuel R. Delany's many prizes include the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. Wesleyan has published both his fiction and nonfiction, including Atlantis: three tales (1995), Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (1994), Longer Views: Extended Essays (1996), and Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary. The press has also reissued his classic science fiction novels Dhalgren (1996), Trouble on Triton (1996, originally published as Triton), and The Einstein Intersection (1998).
"Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness
is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see
details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what
you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of
signs."--New York Times Book Review
"Instead of dishing out the usual, tired mix of improbable magic
and bloody mayhem, Delany weaves an intricate meditation on the
nature of freedom and slavery, on the beguiling differences between
love and lust . . . the prose has been so polished by wit and
intellect that it fairly gleams."--San Francisco Chronicle
"The tales of Nev�rÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . .
Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and
around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions
about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power,
and -- above all -- the possibilities and limitations of narrative.
Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and
gorgeously entertaining."--Washington Post Book World
"Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness
is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see
details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what
you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of
signs."--New York Times Book Review
"This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . . semiotic sword
and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship. It's as if
Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian."--USA Today
"I consider Delany not only one of the most important SF writers of
the present generation, but a fascinating writer in general who has
invented a new style."--Umberto Eco
"Delany's work exists on a kind of borderline -- between theory and
literary practice, between canonical and popular culture, between
academic and nonacademic culture -- a borderline familiar to
feminist theory and cultural critique. The Nev�rÿon series is one
of the most sustained meditations we have on the complex
intersections of sexuality, race, and subjectivity in contemporary
cultures.""--Constance Penley
"The Nev�rÿon series is a major and unclassifiable achievement in
contemporary American literature."--Fredric R. Jameson
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